by Dave Johnson | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog
Last year Maine voters approved an increase in the minimum wage. After this jobs and wages surged. So business groups are trying to do something about it. And not just in Maine. Maine's Job "Surge" Last year voters approved a Maine ballot initiative raising the...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump named Michael Piwowar as acting chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission shortly after his inauguration. Piwowar, one of the SEC’s five commissioners since 2013, quickly flexed his acting chair muscles - on one of the agency’s most...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog
Roger Wilkins has left us, just after his 85th birthday. A great champion of social justice, proud father and good friend, he will be missed. Born into an educated middle class family, Roger was raised with high expectations. His father, business manager of the Kansas...
by Jordan Estevão | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump has used a sweeping executive order to reverse years of government efforts to promote clean air, water and energy. His claim? Environmental protections are bad for jobs. His solution? Windfalls to giant energy and carbon-extraction...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
The senator’s question was simple and straightforward: What would you have done? Judge Neil Gorsuch wouldn’t answer. He couldn’t say whether, on orders from an employer, he’d have driven a tractor trailer with locked brakes, endangering the lives of other motorists,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
Who could be against fair pay and safe workplaces? Give you one guess. President Trump just signed a bill, passed by the Republicans in the House and Senate, that repealed President Obama's Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order. "Fair pay and safe workplaces"...
